Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday wished good health and a speedy recovery to his predecessor Manmohan Singh, who tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here with a mild fever. Singh, 88, has been admitted to the AIIMS trauma centre, which is a dedicated COVID facility, … Read more
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday hit out at Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan for his “politically motivated” response to Manmohan Singh‘s critique of the Centre’s COVID-19 management, saying it was “unfortunate and condemnable”. He said former prime minister Manmohan Singh had written to his successor Narendra Modi giving positive suggestions about vaccination in … Read more
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the COVID-19 crisis, stressing that ramping up vaccination was the key to battling the pandemic. In a letter to the prime minister, the veteran Congress leader said one must not look at absolute numbers but the total percentage of population vaccinated. … Read more
Ahead of the presentation of the Union budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman threw down the gauntlet as it were. The FM audaciously claimed her next essay would be a ‘once in 100 years’ budget. Many believed she may have just over-promised and added to the pressure of coming up with a post-pandemic budget to both … Read more
When you step back and look at where the United States and India were 20 years ago and where we are today, the amount of progress and achievement is truly remarkable. I do not think that anyone would have predicted this type of relationship when we started working on some of these issues at the … Read more
New Delhi: Cold weather conditions continued to sweep the northern belt, as some parts of Kashmir Valley received another spell of snowfall on Sunday. Light rain occurred at isolated places over eastern Uttar Pradesh and in almost all divisions of Madhya Pradesh. The national capital’s minimum temperature dipped to 7.8 degrees Celsius as cold winds … Read more
New Delhi: The Congress had failed miserably to fulfil people’s expectations and aspirations which led to its electoral debacle, former President Pranab Mukherjee wrote in his book that was released on Tuesday. In the book, ‘The Presidential Years, 2012-2017’, Mukherjee, who passed away in August 2020, has talked in detail about the reasons for the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress and some other opposition parties MPs kept away from the ground-breaking ceremony of the new Parliament building on Thursday. Members of non-NDA parties such as BJD, AIADMK and YSRCP, however, attended the event. Rajya Sabha deputy chairman informed the gathering that former PMs Manmohan Singh and HD Deve Gowda had sent their … Read more
New Delhi: Barack Obama’s description of Rahul Gandhi has left the crisis-torn and faction ridden Congress camps in visible anger as well as in “we-told-you-so” glee even as the BJP expectedly took some pot-shots at Gandhi. CWC member Manickam Tagore, a Team Rahul member, on Friday unfollowed Obama on Twitter in protest and gave an … Read more
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday slammed the government over demonetisation, alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s move four years ago was aimed at helping a few of his “crony capitalist friends” and had “destroyed” the Indian economy. Gandhi and the Congress have been alleging that the 2016 demonetisation was not in the … Read more